repartevsrepasséWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“reparte” and “repassé” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#40,463
“reparte” frequency rank
#27,940
“repassé” frequency rank
68403
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reparte repassé
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de repartir. Participe passé masculin singulier de repasser.

Where the eye mixes reparte and repassé

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. reparte and repassé follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
reparte
7 ch
repassé

Visual trap between reparte and repassé

A purely visual mix-up. reparte (\ʁə.paʁt\) and repassé (\ʁə.pa.se\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68403, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reparte is recorded at frequency rank #40,463, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.paʁt\. repassé is at rank #27,940, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.pa.se\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 68403, this pair ranks #59,334 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of reparte vs repassé

Shared letters: aepr. Private to "reparte": t. Private to "repassé": sé.

"reparte" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "repassé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reparte ← erparte · reaprte · reparet · reparrte · repartte · repatre · repparte · reprate

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "reparte" and "repassé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.paʁt\ versus \ʁə.pa.se\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "reparte" vs "repassé" - which ranks higher?
"repassé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,940 in our French list, against #40,463 for "reparte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "reparte" and "repassé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reparte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "repassé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #59,334 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reparte" and "repassé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reparlé vs reparte". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #59,334 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list